Great Estate At Work - The Holkham Estate and Its Inhabitants in the Nineteenth Century

Klappentext This book deals with the work of both Thomas William Coke and his son! their agents and their tenants at Holkham. Zusammenfassung This book deals with the work of both Thomas William Coke and his son! their agents and their tenants at Holkham through the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth. It shows how far even the most dynamic landlord needed a progressive tenantry and how far the tenantry relied on the landlord for the provision of good farm buildings and other capital expenditure. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Holkham estate in its setting; 2. The landlords; 3. The running of the estate; 4. The tenant farmer and his farm; 5. The landlord and the labourer; 6. Some conclusions: the landlord, the tenant and the landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Susanna Wade Martins, Susanna Wade Martins
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2008
• EAN: 9780521080842
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08084-2
• No. of pages: 308
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History